As the narrator of The Family Affair Series, this 4-book series is in story and character form. I plan to share my own life lessons, information that I gathered from my social work practice, counseling sessions with clients, spiritual wisdom and my understanding of human behavior framed within the toxic pathologies of families. Toxic families remain aloof to cause and effect at its basic level which can thwart the self-evolution of future generations. Not inherently or utterly bad, the ego is about self-preservation at all costs and to do this, it will sometimes manipulate and even present a fraud to get what it wants.

Nevertheless, it seems that anytime that the personhood (soul, spirit, body) of an individual is not honored with respect to being worthy of love, respect, and affirmed as a person of value; the will of that person, if it is not resilient, will look for an alternative self in acquiring a seemingly more liberating self-esteem. As this happens, sometimes, our down-sittings create voids that will or can be filled with negative nuances of the 'me' that we believe ourselves to be. Many times, these nuances will include fear, anxiety, depression, anger, bitterness, and even maliciousness.